Jos Buttler gave England a turbo-charged finish to their Sri Lankan demolition job with a final T20 win to go with every other bit of silverware.

Thanks to Buttler’s 73 not out in a partnership of 114 with skipper Eoin Morgan who made 47 not out, England cruised to an eight-wicket win and with it romped to a 20-4 Super Series win to sum up their dominance across all forms.

Promoted to opener for a change, Buttler is in line for a Test recall after his batting brilliance over the last two weeks and you can see why.

He was lucky to get away with an edge when he had made just five, but with no DRS he rode his luck in good old fashioned style and saw his team home to their target of 141 with 15 balls to spare.

England captain Eoin Morgan reverse sweeps (Image: Getty)

Jos Buttler opens up (Image: Gareth Copley)

James Vince plays a shot (Image: Gareth Copley)

The Sri Lankans have been a distant second best all summer but boy do they make life tough for themselves whether it is with needless run outs or dropped catches like they had here.

With the ball England dismissed the Lankans for 140 and couldn’t have been happier with the efforts of their two debutants, Liam Dawson and Tymal Mills, who both shone first time out along with Chris Jordan and Liam Plunkett.

Dawson was the wicket-taking star with 3-27 from his four overs of left-arm spin working in tandem with Adil Rashid who even bowled a maiden in the 12th over of the innings.

Dawson said: “It is amazing especially to make my debut here at the Ageas Bowl where I have grown up. It is what dreams are made of and it has gone really well.”

For Mills it was the culmination of lots of hard graft after so many injury setbacks, and he clocked in at over 93 miles per hour to put the Lankan batsmen on the back foot, conceding just 22 runs from his four overs although he didn’t take a wicket.

Mills said: “It has been a long journey, obviously in the last year I might have had to pack it all in so I wanted to go out here and enjoy it.

“I was not that nervous, Morgy told me I was playing before training and I just wanted to get out there. I just tried to not do anything different to how I have bowled for Sussex. I just ran in and bowled hard and it has gone well.”

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